This is an excerpt of a 1980 oral history interview by Graham Shirley with Margaret (Maggie) Cardin – one of the ABC’s first film editors.
Maggie was an experienced British editor and negative cutter who edited the Australian feature Captain Thunderbolt before coming to the ABC in September 1956.
In this interview excerpt, she talks about instructing ABC staff in the basics of working with film.
Image: Film editor and negative cutter Margaret Cardin. NFSA Title No: 378695.
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